Father Ted or Alan Partridge?

[Bahnhof Strasse]

You threw a monkey in the sea?

Technically, Lynn, your life's not worth insuring.

Lynn could you have a word with that builder - yesterday his jeans were so far off his backside you could more or less see his anus.

The temperature inside this apple pie is over 1000 degrees. If I squeeze it, a jet of molten bramley apple will squirt out. Could go your way; could go mine. Either way, one of us is going down!!!!

We've got so much chat, I'm going to have to get my ice pick out and scale the north face of Chat-mandu!

Der's more to Oireland.. dan dis.

When you hire me you don't just get some guy in a cheap suit who used to be on the telly...well you do - but you also get The Voice.






Ted's fooking funny, but Patridge is in a league of his own.

Aha!

 

[DotCommunist]

haven't seen it. is it as good as "the epic "around the world in 80 days" (with jackie chan)"?

It's flawed but very entertaining indeed. Far far more interesting than that jackie chan shite

 

[purves grundy]

I think I remember reading somewhere that the character of Partridge was created by Stewart Lee and Richard Herring when writing for On The Hour, although I think his finest hours were in I'm Alan Partridge written by Coogan, Baynham and Iannucci.

I think it was a bit of a team effort between Coogan and Lee / Herring, and part of me recalls Coogan doing a character like Alan Partridge at the Edinburgh Fringe before On The Hour. Glad you mentioned OTH though - an absolute gem, sounds almost as fresh today as it did back then. I've got a few episodes, but there were big copyright problems getting the show released on CD as it involved lotsa different writers demanding different things iirc. Consequently, there were big culls of sketches in the final release.

Just like when you watch The Day Today... hard to believe that almost 14 years have elpased since then.

 

[kyser_soze]

Hard to believe that a show that was a satire and parody of a news programme is now, at least in presentation terms, the norm for actual news shows...

 

[Chairman Meow]

Hard to believe that a show that was a satire and parody of a news programme is now, at least in presentation terms, the norm for actual news shows...

I know! My husband will even call me from another room to see the news when it goes 'all Chris Morris'.

 

[Idris2002]

I have decided that I don't like Father Ted.

It was basically stage Irishry, written by a couple of neurotic, forelock-tugging D4s.

(I know there not *geographically* resident in Dublin 4, but it's more a state of mind than anything else).

 

[Stigmata]

I like Father Ted better I think, but i've got a lot of respect for the improvised aspect of I'm Alan Partridge.

 

[stavros]

Just like when you watch The Day Today... hard to believe that almost 14 years have elpased since then.

The programmes that have resulted from the creators of On The Hour and The Day Today are incredible, beating perhaps even Python for greatness of legacy. There's Brass Eye, all the Partridge bits and bobs, Fist Of Fun and TMWRNJ, Father Ted and Linehan and Mathews' other stuff, and everything Armando Iannucci's ever done (Armistice, Time Trumpet, Charm Offensive, The AI Show, The Thick Of It).

 

[poster342002]

Hard to believe that a show that was a satire and parody of a news programme is now, at least in presentation terms, the norm for actual news shows...

Indeed - or how those banal, awful ideas for TV shows that Alan Partridge was pitching to Tony Hayers in one episode actually became the dreary standard for TV in real life. If you watch that episode now, none of those ghastly ideas would raise an eyebrow and you'd find yourslef half-expecting them to appear in the schedules.

 

[PacificOcean]

Indeed - or how those banal, awful ideas for TV shows that Alan Partridge was pitching to Tony Hayers in one episode actually became the dreary standard for TV in real life. If you watch that episode now, none of those ghastly ideas would raise an eyebrow and you'd find yourslef half-expecting them to appear in the schedules.

Monkey Tennis?

 

[liberty]

Has to be Partridge with Father Ted coming a close second

 

[STFC]

Father Ted is absolutely brilliant, but I'm Alan Partridge is the best ever in my opinion. Not just for the lead character either, some of the supporting roles (Michael, Lynne, Sonia etc.) and Alan's interaction with them are spot on. I went through a period when I'd watch an episode of IAP at least once a week, and I never got sick of it.

Strangely, I've never made much of an effort to watch Knowing Me, Knowing You, or The Day Today etc.

 

[stavros]

I watched the double bill of Ted last night on More4, and despite having seen both of them hundreds of times (the one with the novellist woman and the one where Jack dies), I was still in pain through laughing so much. It was especially good when Mrs Doyle was quoting from the books; "Feck this and feck that, feck off you little bollocks, ride me sideways was another one too."

I also spotted that Dave has an episode of IAP on tomorrow night at 10.20, so I'll be sure to watch that too. I hope it's from the first series because although I loved both, I did prefer his dreary decline in the Travel Tavern.

 

[aqua]

Partridge is no where near as great as Father Ted

 

[scumbalina]

Patridge

 

[stavros]

It was from the second series, but still had me in fits.

"I've got a girlfriend you know, only 31..... cashback."

"Guess which one of you two ladies I'm going to make love to now."

"You realise I couldn't have drawn a penis on my back."
"Alan, that was a long time ago."
"Yeah, that's what Nazi war criminals say."

 

[purves grundy]

It's the little throwaway lines that do it for me:

"I love you, in a way."

"Awwww... dunno what you're talking about."

 

[Fledgling]

The mentalist episode may swing it for Partridge.

"Very clever men, I don't trust them, Gerry Adams looks like a deputy headmaster, Martin McGuiness looks like a clown without his makeup".

 

[rubbershoes]

Strangely, I've never made much of an effort to watch Knowing Me, Knowing You, or The Day Today etc.

Knowing me knowing you is fabulous. Both the radio and TV versions.

Maybe something for Father Christmas to get you

 

[STFC]

Knowing me knowing you is fabulous. Both the radio and TV versions.

Maybe something for Father Christmas to get you

Back of the net!

 

[Sunray]

Alan partridge is rubbish compared to Father Ted.

Father Ted cracks me up.

Alan Partridge is funny but in a chuckle kind of way, often borrowing from that 'The Office' excruciating style of humor, which is brilliantly done, but can leave you flat.

 

[stavros]

IAP pre-dated The Office, and totally destroys it for brilliance. The Office borrowed much more from the forgotten People Like Us.

And to add another classic Alan quote to this post; "Kiss my face."